The sheer audacity! Max, the German Shepherd, had a habit of, well, defecating on Barry's lawn. Barry had asked, politely, then not-so-politely, but still the problem persisted. His blood pressure was up.

He felt something in him shift. He knew what he had to do. Barry walked to the pet supply store.

He purchased several bags of coyote urine. He spent the afternoon meticulously applying it to the perimeter of his property. He wanted to make it clear that his yard was off-limits. He watched, a faint smile playing on his lips, as Max sniffed the fence and then turned away.

Emotion: vengeful

Cluster: Defiance / Spite
PC1 (Valence): 1.70 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 3.71

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vengeful. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vengeful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vengeful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vengeful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.739
la0.527
l0.507
😈0.422
-0.379
Suppressed:
own-0.981
此刻-0.504
గుర్త-0.464
보니-0.454
仿佛-0.442